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Written by H. P. Lovecraft
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. |
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Written by H. P. Lovecraft
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Saturday, 08 September 2007 |
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During the winter of 1927-28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The public first learned of it in February, when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting - under suitable precautions - of an enormous number of crumbling, worm-eaten, and supposedly empty houses along the abandoned waterfront. |
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Written by H. P. Lovecraft
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Friday, 22 December 2006 |
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Nyarlathotep... the crawling chaos... I am the last... I will tell the audient void.... |
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Written by H. P. Lovecraft
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Thursday, 14 December 2006 |
Original title Al Azif - azif being the word used by the Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons.
Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A. D. |
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Written by Old Theobald
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Thursday, 21 December 2006 |
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The Simon Necronomicon, that little black paperback from Avon, is undoubtedly the most common of the commercially available Necronomicons. The book was originally released as a limited run of 666 leather-bound copies. A cloth-bound hardcover followed, in a run of 3333 copies. In its mass-market paperback incarnation, this book holds the dubious honor of being the easiest Necronomicon to find. |
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Written by H. P. Lovecraft
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
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Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end. To say that a mental shock was the cause of what I inferred - that last straw which sent me racing out of the lonely Akeley farmhouse and through the wild domed hills of Vermont in a commandeered motor at night - is to ignore the plainest facts of my final experience. Notwithstanding the deep things I saw and heard, and the admitted vividness the impression produced on me by these things, I cannot prove even now whether I was right or wrong in my hideous inference. For after all Akeley's disappearance establishes nothing. |
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Written by H. P. Lovecraft
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Tuesday, 18 September 2007 |
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Lavinia was one who would be apt to mutter such things, for she was a lone creature given to wandering amidst thunderstorms in the hills and trying to read the great odorous books which her father had inherited through two centuries of Whateleys, and which were fast falling to pieces with age and wormholes. She had never been to school, but was filled with disjointed scraps of ancient lore that Old Whateley had taught her. The remote farmhouse had always been feared because of Old Whateley's reputation for black magic, and the unexplained death by violence of Mrs Whateley when Lavinia was twelve years old had not helped to make the place popular. |
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